Fondo para la Salud Mental

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Low academic achievement in College and the big distance between freshmen’s previous training and skills required in this educational level are considered an important issue. this situation can be explained by a certain number of variables. in spite of this, educational psychology points to learning strategies to address the question. a comparison between High school (n= 155, public schoolers from Buenos aires City) and College students (n= 193, from two public argentinean universities) is presented. differences in learning strategies are analyzed (p< 0, 01) by socio-demographic variables (sex, cohabitation group, educational level and parental education). Females show more anxiety and use helping study techniques more frequently than males. Comparing strategies employed by highschoolers and College students, significant differences in every strategy, favouring College participants, were verified, except in anxiety and concerns on achievement. differences were not verified in any strategy, neither by cohabitation group, nor by parental educational level. results are discussed taking into account recent findings.

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